Month: April 2019

Nine Lies About Work: A book review by Bob Morris

April 11, 2019

Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall Harvard Business Review Press (April 2019) Why making the world a better place requires the courage and wit to see it as it…

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10 Brainteasers To Test Your Mental Sharpness

April 11, 2019

I hope you like to put white caps on your gray matter. Here’s another thought-provoking article by Holly Green, featured in Forbes magazine. * * * To test your mental acuity, answer the following questions (no peeking at the answers!):…

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Why Data Science Teams Need Generalists, Not Specialists

April 11, 2019

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Eric Colson for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts, please click…

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Fail More: A book review by Bob Morris

April 10, 2019

Fail More: Embrace, Learn, and Adapt to Failure As a Way to Success Bill Wooditch McGraw-Hill Education (March 2019) The more you fail, the more you can learn. The more you learn, the more likely that you will succeed. Thomas…

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What Sets the Most Effective Innovators Apart

April 10, 2019

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Omar Abbosh, Vedrana Savic, and Michael Moore for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive…

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Uniquely Effective Leadership: Loonshooting

April 9, 2019

In Longshots, Safi Bahcall explains how great leaders “nurture the crazy ideas that win wars, cure diseases, and transform industries.” That is, “widely dismissed ideas whose champions are often written off as crazy.” For example, in Chapter 8 he discusses…

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Why Every Organization Needs an Augmented Reality Strategy

April 9, 2019

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Michael E. Porter and James E. Heppelman for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information,…

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Rich Karlgaard on making personal reality manageable

April 8, 2019

In Chapter 9 of Late Bloomers, Rich Karlgaard shares some valuable insights about the power of stories, the plasticity of persistence, and how they’re linked. “Stories don’t just describe what’s happened — they help determine what will happen. The stories…

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Overlooked No More: Isabella Goodwin, New York City’s First Female Police Detective

April 8, 2019

Here is an article by Corey Kilgannon that is part of a series initiated by The New York Times to recognize extraordinary women who had not been honored in a Times obituary.  To read the complete article and others in…

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Why Visionary Leadership Fails

April 8, 2019

I agree with Thomas Edison: “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Here is an excerpt from an article written by Nufer Yasin Ates, Murat Tarakci, Jeanine P. Porck, Daan van Knippenberg, and Patrick Groenen for Harvard Business Review and the HBR…

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